[WinMac] Mac & PC can coexist

Daly Jessup(jessup[at]san.rr.com)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 21:31:58 -0700

Frank McVeigh asked:
><I have and Mac and PC side by side and want to connect them using
>personal file sharing. I have heard of Mac Lan software. Is that the
>best solution?
>
>What hardware is needed to create the network.>
>
>Have I stumped everyone? Isn't there a way for the Mac & PC to exchange
>files?
>
>Wouldn't there be a cable to attach between the two and have at it?

Sorry, I forget the start of this thread, but there are a number of ways to
exchange files between Mac and Win. Obviously, floppies, and other
removables. I sometimes use MacLink Plus/PC Connect which comes with a
cable for connecting them, and the software for both sides, and works
beautifully. If you could get them both on the same ethernet you could then
set up ftp exchanges using shareware - I have had great success with making
PCs into ftp servers using ZB-server PRO and WS-FTP as the ftp client, and
NetPresenz on the Mac to make it an ftp server, and Fetch as the ftp
client. They are easy to set up and use and permit ftp file exchanges very
nicely. (I usually have best luck setting up the PC to serve files with
ZB-server pro and then accessing the PC from the Mac, transferring files as
text format for text, and "raw data" for everything else.

You could set up the computers with connections through their modem ports.
I have seen this described recently and in fact I see now that I kept a
copy of the procedure. This one was aimed at connecting two Macs, but I
cannot see why it wouldn't work for any two computers.

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TITLE

 iMac: Transferring Files Modem to Modem

TOPIC
I was told that I could transfer data from an older Macintosh computer to
my iMac by running a
phone cable from my old Macintosh computer's modem to the iMac computer's
built-in 56K
modem. Is this possible? If so, what is the step-by-step process for
transferring files?

DISCUSSION

Yes, you can connect two modems with a phone cable and transfer data,
however, Ethernet is a
much better way to transfer data if your older Macintosh is Ethernet
capable. In testing, we were
able to perform data transfer between an iMac and Power Macintosh G3
desktop computer using
ClarisWorks 5.0. You can use other terminal applications like ZTerm. We
also used StuffIt to
create one single file for simplicity when sending. You can find the steps
we followed below:

       1) Connect both modems with a standard phone cable.
       2) For both computers, we set our Connections Settings for:
              Baud Rate: 57600
              Parity: None
              Data Bits: 8
              Stop Bits: 1
              Handshake DTR & CTS
       3) For both computers we left the default File Transfer Settings at:
              Protocol: XMODEM Tool
              Method: MacBinary
              Transfer Options: Standard
       4) Select Open connection from the Session menu (this will let you
type modem AT commands
       5) On the sending computer, type: "ATD"

       6) On the receiving computer type: "ATA"
       7) The modems should begin to negotiate and give you a connection speed.
       8) Once the modems are connected, select Send File from the Session
menu on the sending
       computer.
       9) Select the documents StuffIt archive file and hit the send button
       10) On the receiving computer, select Receive File from the Session
menu
       11) The computers should start to send and receive the file via XMODEM
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Hope something in here proves useful.

Daly

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Daly Jessup

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